End Of The Road

I blogged on Monday that Bush’s Forest Service was poised to okay a controversial deal with the nation’s largest private landowner, Plum Creek Timber, that would likely have led to real estate development in Montana forests far from any towns.

The Bush administration was thumbing its nose at Montana municipalities that had opposed the deal. The move was so unpolitic that Plum Creek axed the deal itself, by withdrawing its long-standing request.